Tony Britton
Walking the Amazon for ME research
Fundraising for ME Association
Story
January 2010
This page will be updated later today....
Thank you for visiting Ed Stafford's fundraising page for the ME Association – which started out on the workwithus website but moved across here in March 2008.
After Luke Collyer's sensational withdrawal from this 4,000-mile trek on 4 July, 2008, former British Army captain Ed Stafford is forging ahead with just Cho, his Peruvian guide, for company – and the occasional visiting photojournalist.
He's now in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest during the dry summer, and is having a hell of a time. His story was picked up by the Daily Mail at the end of October and is a real eye-opener.
Daily Mail story
You can keep up with Ed's progress by subscribing to his blog at the following website:
Walking the Amazon
On Saturday 24th October, Ed's mother Ba held a supper and poetry and prose evening at Mowsley village hall in Leicestershire to boost ME Association funds. The theme was getting older with humour and looking back with nostalgia. A friend, George Sanders, travelled from Betws-y-Coed to read the nostalgia poems which was interspersed by several very light hearted and humorous poems and bits of prose read by villagers The evening was great fun and £1450 was raised.
The money will go towards helping to try to establish the causes of the illness ME/CFS, the main symptoms of which are muscle and brain fatigue and general flu-like symptoms which are often very severe and painful. Ed’s sister Janie has been a sufferer for 16 years. There are ¼ million sufferers in the UK.
And thanks to Gill Brown, who organised a barn dance for the Tissue Bank Appeal at Nailsea in Bristol in November 2009. This brought in another £460.
Thank you from all of us at the ME Association. But, most of all, thank you from Ed.
This page will be updated later today....
Thank you for visiting Ed Stafford's fundraising page for the ME Association – which started out on the workwithus website but moved across here in March 2008.
After Luke Collyer's sensational withdrawal from this 4,000-mile trek on 4 July, 2008, former British Army captain Ed Stafford is forging ahead with just Cho, his Peruvian guide, for company – and the occasional visiting photojournalist.
He's now in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest during the dry summer, and is having a hell of a time. His story was picked up by the Daily Mail at the end of October and is a real eye-opener.
Daily Mail story
You can keep up with Ed's progress by subscribing to his blog at the following website:
Walking the Amazon
On Saturday 24th October, Ed's mother Ba held a supper and poetry and prose evening at Mowsley village hall in Leicestershire to boost ME Association funds. The theme was getting older with humour and looking back with nostalgia. A friend, George Sanders, travelled from Betws-y-Coed to read the nostalgia poems which was interspersed by several very light hearted and humorous poems and bits of prose read by villagers The evening was great fun and £1450 was raised.
The money will go towards helping to try to establish the causes of the illness ME/CFS, the main symptoms of which are muscle and brain fatigue and general flu-like symptoms which are often very severe and painful. Ed’s sister Janie has been a sufferer for 16 years. There are ¼ million sufferers in the UK.
And thanks to Gill Brown, who organised a barn dance for the Tissue Bank Appeal at Nailsea in Bristol in November 2009. This brought in another £460.
Thank you from all of us at the ME Association. But, most of all, thank you from Ed.